1882年出生于波兰华沙附近的克拉科夫，1948年在澳洲雪梨逝世。弗利德曼在捆拉科夫开始接受音乐教育，接着到维也纳师从莱彻帝茨基四年，并在维也纳举办个人第一场独奏会;后来在维也纳与莱比锡跟随阿德勒（Guido Adler）与雷曼（Hugo Riemann）学习作曲，1905年以数场欧洲、南美与澳洲巡回演出进入国际乐坛。弗利德曼到1914年前都一直住在柏林，1918年后移居丹麦哥哈根，1920年在北美举办数场音乐会后移居美国，晚年在澳洲度过。在漫长而且成功的音乐生涯里，弗利德曼举办过的音乐会（包括与乐团合作）超过三千场，他也和小提琴家胡伯曼（Bronislav Huberman）、大提琴家卡萨尔斯（Pablo Casales）合作演出室内乐。弗利德曼也是个活跃的音乐家，创作过九十首以上的作品，还有多首改编曲并从事乐谱校订工作，Breitkopf H rtel曾经在1912年出版由弗利德曼编校的肖邦作品全集，舒曼与李斯特乐谱校订版则是做全球发行。身为钢琴家，弗利德曼的魅力在于完美的演奏技巧及美丽的音色。 　　 　　Ignaz Friedman (also spelled Ignace or Ignacy; full name Solomon (Salomon) Isaac Freudman(n), Yiddish: שְׁלֹמֹה יִצְחָק פֿרײדמאַן; February 13, 1882 – January 26, 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold C. Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g. Sergei Rachmaninoff) alike placed him among the supreme piano virtuosi of his day, alongside Leopold Godowsky, Moriz Rosenthal, Josef Hofmann and Josef Lhévinne. 　　  　　Born to an itinerant Jewish musician in Podgórze near Kraków, Ignaz Friedman was a child prodigy. He studied with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna, and participated in Ferruccio Busoni's masterclasses. 　　  　　Friedman lived in Berlin until 1914 and settled in Copenhagen in 1920. 　　  　　His official début in Vienna in 1904 featured a program of three piano concertos, rivaling the similar programs of established titans like Busoni and Godowsky, and he remained a titan throughout his career. His style was quiet and effortless, imbued with a sense of rhythm and color, grounded in a sovereign technique, and much has been written about his peerless interpretations of Chopin in particular. 　　  　　As with his compatriot and contemporary Moriz Rosenthal, Friedman's Chopin interpretations, particularly those of the mazurkas, are considered by many to be unsurpassed. Despite having given 2,800 concerts during his career, he sometimes received lukewarm reviews in America in later years, as younger critics were becoming accustomed to modernist playing which stripped romantic interpretation of its agogics and essence. (Rachmaninoff admired Friedman's playing but may have opined that he "played too much to the gallery.") 　　  　　At the outbreak of the Second World War, Friedman was in Europe, but managed to escape when a concert tour in Australia was offered at the last moment. He settled in Sydney and remained there until his death (which occurred on Australia Day, 1948). His last concert was in Sydney on July 24, 1943, after which neuritis in his left hand forced him to retire from the concert platform. 　　  　　Legacy 　　Friedman's relatively few recordings, which have been collected by Naxos Records on five CDs, are widely admired, particularly his Chopin and his nine Songs Without Words by Mendelssohn. Like most of the great artists of his time who broadcast, much of his recorded material has been lost, including hours of radio recordings made in Australia and New Zealand. 　　  　　He composed more than 90 works, mainly piano miniatures, as well as pieces for cello and a piano quintet, but his compositions have not found a niche in the standard repertory. He arranged many works, especially those of J. S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. 　　  　　He edited an almost complete edition of the piano works of Chopin and also produced editions of Schumann and Liszt. 　　  　　The Sydney Conservatorium of Music awards an annual Ignaz Friedman Prize for composition. 　　  　　Friedman also taught several important pianists, including Joseph Gurt, Ignaz Tiegerman and Bruce Hungerford (who also died in a foreign country on Australia Day).